To the Editor of the "Nonta-Carxa Dairy News."
Stn,—On several occasions my appetite at tiffin has been considerably weakened by seeing a particularly repulsive-looking insect emerge from the right leg of my trousers.
There can be no doubt whatever that this little beast had survived my bath, and that like the Children of Israel mentioned in the Book of Exodus, after emerging from the Red Sea, came forth Beyond a passing interest which this may have for scientists, it does not very much concern the ordinary person, but think that most of us would prefer that our clothes should not serve as hosts to such knappe ising tenants, and T would suggest that our wardrobes might very well be municipally inspected as weill as cour bakeries. 3 I cannot name the insect, but it evidently belon: s to the fumily Pulicidae, and is consequently closely related to our ubiquitous friend Pulex irritans, usually but erroneously known as the domestic Tam, ete., Too Arn to Scrarce, gth September.
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